Monday, May 7, 2012

Monday's Muse: Carolee Schneemann


Carolee, born October 12, 1939, is an epic female American visual artist well known for outrageous discourses on sexulaity, the body, and gender. Labeled as a Feminist icon, her work is widely noted for exploring issues in art history in which address feminist topics.
Interior Scroll, 1975 - A very raw Fluxus-influenced event using text and her body where Schneemann entering the art space wrapped in a sheet and apron, she got on a table, disrobed to viewers her body in which she outlined in dark paint and read from her book Cezanne, She was a Great Painter aloud until dropping the book to then slowly extract a scroll from her vagina which she also read from.
Her work was later said to influence a change of masculinity that dominated Minimalist and Conceptual Art at the time and into a Feminist exploration of the body.
Carloee's work primary focused on the separation between eroticism and the politics of gender and for this she brought unique feminine perspective to the art world and the public sphere.
   

















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